The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 74Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1841 - English literature |
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... become greatly instructed of late years by two circumstances ; and bid fair , many of them , though in comparative poverty , to display the best endowments of mind . The first of these circumstances is the general progress of knowledge ...
... become greatly instructed of late years by two circumstances ; and bid fair , many of them , though in comparative poverty , to display the best endowments of mind . The first of these circumstances is the general progress of knowledge ...
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... become equally firm and enlightened . The veriest children are beginning to see that it is iniquitous to compel payment for the support of a system which the conscience of the individual disapproves . There was a time when the ...
... become equally firm and enlightened . The veriest children are beginning to see that it is iniquitous to compel payment for the support of a system which the conscience of the individual disapproves . There was a time when the ...
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... become the victims of the jealousy or dis- pleasure of the king . A few cases of recent occurrence will sufficiently illustrate the temper of the chiefs , and the character of the Ashantee government . When the king of Ashantee ...
... become the victims of the jealousy or dis- pleasure of the king . A few cases of recent occurrence will sufficiently illustrate the temper of the chiefs , and the character of the Ashantee government . When the king of Ashantee ...
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... become the objects of the sovereign's jealousy . The king of Ashantee ( As - hánti ) , in con- versing with Mr. Hutchinson , advocated the slave - trade , for the reason that the slave - population in the country was too numerous for ...
... become the objects of the sovereign's jealousy . The king of Ashantee ( As - hánti ) , in con- versing with Mr. Hutchinson , advocated the slave - trade , for the reason that the slave - population in the country was too numerous for ...
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... become the wife of one whom she dislikes : but if she refuse to receive as her husband one of whom her father approves , he instantly withdraws from her his support and protection , and prohibits her mother also from affording her any ...
... become the wife of one whom she dislikes : but if she refuse to receive as her husband one of whom her father approves , he instantly withdraws from her his support and protection , and prohibits her mother also from affording her any ...
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Page 117 - Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak ; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Page 121 - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Page 562 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Page 562 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell...
Page 345 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 661 - I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 563 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 567 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 127 - And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Page 563 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour, which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses. Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.